Drohan Brick Featured in Lancaster County Magazine

Choosing Your Landscape Lighting Design Style

It's important that the outdoor lighting design that you choose for your outdoor area has the real feel. Every yard is going to be different. There are no template designs that can simply be picked up and applied to your specific setting. If your home and property has a central theme (such as classic, understated, etc.), you will want to bring that out. But there's more to the design than the central theme; there is a panoply of themes, and any number of personal or professional styles to address those themes.

The Secrets to Fabulous Outdoor Lighting

Light up your yard with style for entertaining, relaxing, beauty, security, and safety.

Layers of Light

Make your yard look as beautiful at night as it does during the day with good landscape lighting. We'll show you how to combine ambient lighting with task lights for security or safety -- and how to incorporate accent lighting such as spotlights, strip lights, and water-feature lighting.

Guide the Way

Lead guests to the front door with path lights set along the walkway. For the most pleasing look, choose soft, nonglaring fixtures that direct most of the light downward.

Install an Outdoor Fireplace or Fire Pit

More than nearly any other outdoor feature I can think of, a fireplace (or fire pit or bowl) instantly makes the yard the place where everyone wants to be. It easily becomes the focal point of a space, drawing friends and family together around its warm glow. Whether your ideal vision includes kids roasting marshmallows over a rustic wood fire pit, or relaxing with a glass of wine in the evening in front of a beautiful gas fireplace, there is sure to be a just-right fire feature for you.

Advantages of Fire Pit Cooking

Fire pit cooking is gaining popularity! While outdoor grilling used to be done only on a charcoal or propane grill or barbecue, more and more people are discovering the joy of building a wood fire and using your barbecue pit to grill delicious food while enjoying the warmth and aromas of a real wood fire.

Choosing The Best Grill Checklist

13 Best Grilling Tips

1. Gas vs. Charcoal?2. Get It Hot!3. Additive-Free4. Brush It Off5. Oil It Up6. Safety First7. Marinate Your Meat8. A Chimney Starter9. Is It Done?10. Use A Grill Basket11. The Hand Test12. Tame The Flames13. Give It A Rest

Designing an Outdoor Kitchen

Nothing marks the start of backyard season quite like a cookout! We've got all the ingredients you need for an open-air cooking area that's truly worthy of your five-star food. Incorporate as many improvements as you'd like—and as your budget allows—then expand your chef's corner and outdoor dining spaces over time. Get started with some of our best ideas, complete with inspirational photos and step-by-step instructions.

Patio & Fire Pit

Schneider Residence

Fountain Project

We had a landscape challenge in our back yard with the "well cap" that seemed impossible to hide/camouflage. We got the idea that we could kill two birds with one stone by building a "foundation" for a fountain with one of you fire pit kits and hide the well cap and enjoy the benefits of a fountain! These pictures show the project in work.

Retaining wall at Pleasant View Retirement Community

Diesel is the Supervisor, Martin's Greenhouse & Nursery, Duane Martin

Retaining wall at Pleasant View Retirement Community

This project used the Anchor Diamond Stone Cut Retaining Wall System. Diesel is the Supervisor. By Martin's Greenhouse & Nursery.

Rockin Drohan Brick at the Late Show with David Letterman

Drohan Brick in NYC at the Late Show...

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Out and about with friends

Fire pit / Patio

Finishing up Fire Pit

Fire Pit

Memorial Day Cookout with Great Family and Friends

Brick is not just for the exterior!

Brick is not just for outside! Here it is in our basement pub.

Open house -- kick off

Get A Shirt Today!

Join us today for the Drohan Brick open house, get a shirt and enter to win a free pizza party!

Jack and Bobbi Thomas patio

Hardscape Fireplace

This fireplace wall was originally just plain old boring white drywall. Now it is amazing, thanks to hardscaping from Drohan!

Hardscape Fireplace

This fireplace wall was originally just plain old boring white drywall. Now it is amazing, thanks to hardscaping from Drohan!

Jack and Bobbi Thomas patio

Get A Shirt Today!

Join us today for the Drohan Brick open house, get a shirt and enter to win a free pizza party!

Open house -- kick off

Brick is not just for the exterior!

Brick is not just for outside! Here it is in our basement pub.

Fire Pit

Memorial Day Cookout with Great Family and Friends

Fire pit / Patio

Finishing up Fire Pit

Out and about with friends

lost

Rockin Drohan Brick at the Late Show with David Letterman

Drohan Brick in NYC at the Late Show...

Retaining wall at Pleasant View Retirement Community

This project used the Anchor Diamond Stone Cut Retaining Wall System. Diesel is the Supervisor. By Martin's Greenhouse & Nursery.

Retaining wall at Pleasant View Retirement Community

Diesel is the Supervisor, Martin's Greenhouse & Nursery, Duane Martin

Fountain Project

We had a landscape challenge in our back yard with the "well cap" that seemed impossible to hide/camouflage. We got the idea that we could kill two birds with one stone by building a "foundation" for a fountain with one of you fire pit kits and hide the well cap and enjoy the benefits of a fountain! These pictures show the project in work.

Cozy Fire Pit & Patio

Designing an Outdoor Kitchen

Nothing marks the start of backyard season quite like a cookout! We've got all the ingredients you need for an open-air cooking area that's truly worthy of your five-star food. Incorporate as many improvements as you'd like—and as your budget allows—then expand your chef's corner and outdoor dining spaces over time. Get started with some of our best ideas, complete with inspirational photos and step-by-step instructions.

13 Best Grilling Tips

1. Gas vs. Charcoal?2. Get It Hot!3. Additive-Free4. Brush It Off5. Oil It Up6. Safety First7. Marinate Your Meat8. A Chimney Starter9. Is It Done?10. Use A Grill Basket11. The Hand Test12. Tame The Flames13. Give It A Rest

Advantages of Fire Pit Cooking

Fire pit cooking is gaining popularity! While outdoor grilling used to be done only on a charcoal or propane grill or barbecue, more and more people are discovering the joy of building a wood fire and using your barbecue pit to grill delicious food while enjoying the warmth and aromas of a real wood fire.

Install an Outdoor Fireplace or Fire Pit

More than nearly any other outdoor feature I can think of, a fireplace (or fire pit or bowl) instantly makes the yard the place where everyone wants to be. It easily becomes the focal point of a space, drawing friends and family together around its warm glow. Whether your ideal vision includes kids roasting marshmallows over a rustic wood fire pit, or relaxing with a glass of wine in the evening in front of a beautiful gas fireplace, there is sure to be a just-right fire feature for you.

The Secrets to Fabulous Outdoor Lighting

Light up your yard with style for entertaining, relaxing, beauty, security, and safety.

Layers of Light

Make your yard look as beautiful at night as it does during the day with good landscape lighting. We'll show you how to combine ambient lighting with task lights for security or safety -- and how to incorporate accent lighting such as spotlights, strip lights, and water-feature lighting.

Guide the Way

Lead guests to the front door with path lights set along the walkway. For the most pleasing look, choose soft, nonglaring fixtures that direct most of the light downward.

Choosing Your Landscape Lighting Design Style

It's important that the outdoor lighting design that you choose for your outdoor area has the real feel. Every yard is going to be different. There are no template designs that can simply be picked up and applied to your specific setting. If your home and property has a central theme (such as classic, understated, etc.), you will want to bring that out. But there's more to the design than the central theme; there is a panoply of themes, and any number of personal or professional styles to address those themes.